The attorney for Briton Gary McKinnon, the biggest US military hacker ever, has said that McKinnon is afraid he will be prosecuted under US anti-terror laws -- which the attorney says could send him to Guantanamo Bay. McKinnon allegedly broke into 97 government computers to try and find evidence the US government knows about UFOs but has been concealing information about extraterrestrial life. His illegal activities allegedly caused around $700,000 of damage. He hacked into the government computers in 14 different states, including U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, NASA and Pentagon systems.

A UK judge previously asked the US government for some sort of reassurance that McKinnon would be charged in federal court and not under any anti-terror laws. District Judge Nicholas Evans will announce the decision whether or not McKinnon will be extradited on May 10. If McKinnon is extradited, unless he has an agreement made with the federal government, anti-terror charges could be filed.

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Meanwhile here in the UK, a man has been issued with a control order to restrict his movements under our recent terrorism legislation.

Such people are not told of their alledged crime nor the evidence but may be held, restricted or imprisoned.

Apparently there has to be a judge who approves it.

The reasoning is that there MAY be strong evidence eg from secret services of the crime, but that to take it to court would require disclosing the secrets and methods used to find the evidence.

So in theory the state may be able to arbitrarily hold anyone without charge or trial.

Now, taking my conspiracy about aliens helping the hacker. It seems that if aliens were discovered already and kept secret, it could be argued that in the interests of national security, the hacker should be placed in Guantanamo without trial. If they brought the case to court, the truth of alien existence from secret files would come out into the open and not everyone would want that to become public knowledge. Imprisoning the hacker who had the evidence of aliens would be a way to keep him quiet, or hope that he was denounced as a madman.

Conspiracy, conspiracy.... but I would not like to be imprisoned without the chance to defend myself in court.

peternelson, you better watch yourself. You are obviously getting WAY too close to the truth here. To make things worse for you, you have chosen to use your real name in these posts. I have a feeling that you may soon be eye to eye with a couple of aliens in Guantanamo if you continue to break through the walls of deception in this case. You have a keen eye for reading between the lines, perhaps TOO keen.

"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine." -- Bill Gates